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Perhaps if computing did not create a psychology distance between people and the work being accomplished, people would be much more nervous about the realities we are facing with cybersecurity. After all, the \u201cCloud\u201d is an abstract concept that most people don\u2019t really understand. Trillions of dollars of transactions each year and a countless number of important actions, such as drone strikes, satellite repositioning, and communications, are conducted over the internet or \u201cCloud\u201d.







Consider this: if every person\u2019s home was physically broken into by a thug versus the current situation where a hacker breaks into your personal data from faraway places, citizens would be demanding change. Yet because the criminal act is distant and abstract versus a physical act, it isn\u2019t as scary, even though it could be far more damaging to you or society. See past shows where I covered the threat of cyberwarfare and cyber security in more detail\xa0(see the most recent show\xa0here).

This episode of Business Game Changers I invited Frank Sauer, the founder and CEO of Outdo Inc, a Washington D.C. based think tank that is working on changing the entire paradigm of how we look at cyber security and computing. His group of brilliant thinkers believe the current paradigm is outdated and based on decade old thinking focusing on solving the wrong problem. This is why, despite all the money and effort spent, the situation is getting worse. This episode we dive into what their new paradigm is and how it can solve our security issues. We also take a look at the information age and how society is rapidly changing while institutions, set up for the industrial age, are reeling and collapsing, unable to handle the new paradigms.

Mr. Sauer\u2019s background uniquely puts him in a position to take on these challenges. He has been an executive at three premier organizations arguably during their most influential periods: Xerox in the 1970\u2019s, Apple in the 1980\u2019s, and the FBI both before and after 9/11. He also holds both a bachelor\u2019s degree from Georgetown and a masters from MIT.

While at the FBI, Sauer was the Deputy Assistant Director for software and was also the first Program Executive for the FBI\u2019s $600 million bureau-wide infrastructure upgrade of hardware, networking and software as well as the Program Manager and Acting Unit Chief for the FBI\u2019s nationwide DNA database effort, CODIS.\xa0

You can learn more about Frank on his LinkedIn profile page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/franksauer/